Carrying-bag handle



F. L. JOHNSON.

CARRYING BAG HANDLE. APPLIcArloN flu-:o SEPT. 19.1918.

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CARRYING-BAG HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 10, 1919.

Application led September 19, 1918. Serial No. 254,796.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FRED L. JOHNSON, aV

citizen of the United States, residing at Sioux Falls, in the county of Minnehaha and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carrying-Bag Handles, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to cert-ain new and useful improvements in a bag, and it resides in an improved handle construction embodied and incorporated in the upper portion of the bag whereby the latter may easily be carried in a manner similar to a hand bag or satchel.

The improved bag is especially intended and adapted for usev by shoppers, as in the grocery or mercantile line, and the invention consists in cutting hand openings in opposite sides of the bag adjacent its upper edge, whereby to leave a top cross bar toconstitute a handle bar, and reinforcing the surrounding edge portion of the hand openings, as by card board, which reinforcements are likewise formed with hand openings coinciding with those of the bag proper, the removed portions of both the bag and its reinforcements being folded up against the handle bars to further reinforce them and effect a neat iinish.

The invention further resides in the features of construction hereinafter described in detail and claimed in a succinct manner,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing wherein- Figure l is an elevation of a bag embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical cross section thereof on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a reinforcing member.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the paper, or other fabricated, bag 1 is provided with a pair of depending substantially semi-circular slits 2 in its opposite sides and in registering relation, thereby leaving the resulting tab or Hap 3 integrally secured to the overlying cross bar 4 along the line of fold 5.

A reinforcing member 6, such as cardboard and preferably of rectangular design, is secured along the Lipper edge of the bag adjacent each slit 2, as by turning over the upper edge 7 and employing an adhesive or other binder, each reinforcing member being formed with a semi-circular slit 8 coincident with the slit in the bag proper. The lower portions of the reinforcing members are free of the bag.

The flaps 9 of the members 6 and flaps 3 of the bag body proper have their lower portions removed, as along line 10, Fig. 3, and then folded inwardly and upwardly on line 5 against the downturned edges 7 thus doubling the thickness of and reinforcing the handle bars t and forming an underlying hand opening l1. The flaps 3 of the bag cover both the inside and the outside of the handle bars and provide a neat finish for the same.

The bags are designed for groceries and like mercantile establishments, for use by their customers, and especially for the stores of the cash and carry type. They are very economically manufactured and possess great strength and durability being usable over and over again. Being of paper they are very light and can be folded into small space for storage or carrying.

lVhat is claimed is:

l. A bag comprising a bag body, and a pair of reinforcing members secured in opposing relation to the inner side thereof adjacent its upper edge, said upper edge of the bag body being turned inwardly and downwardly over the reinforcing members, said body and reinforcing members being provided with coinciding semi-circular slits to form flaps depending from superposed cross bars,` said flaps folded -inwardly and upwardly over the downturned upper edge of the body and against the cross bars to constitute handle bars, the flaps of the bag body covering the inner sides of the handle bars to e'ect a neat finish both inside and outside.

2. A bag comprising a bag body, and a pair of sheet-like reinforcing members secured in opposing relation to the inner side thereof adjacent its upper edge, said body and reinforcing members being provided with coinciding hand openings, said reinforcing members having their lower portions about the hand openings free from the side of the bag body.

3. A paper bag having hand openings in its opposite sides adjacent the bag opening, and reinforcing sheets secured to the handle bars above the hand openings and likewise formed with hand openings in coincidence with the first hand openings, the lower portions of the reinforcing sheets being free from the sides of the bag whereby the latter may yield therefrom.

4. A paper bag having reinforcing sheets 5 secured to the opposite Sides thereof, said bag and sheets formed with substantially semi-circular slits and the resulting depending flaps folded inwardly and upwardly against the inner faces of the overlying handle bars whereby to reinforce the latter and 10 hold the sheets relatively spaced.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FRED L. JOHNSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

